We should also say ” 老竇我好掛住你啊！” ( = Daddy, how I miss you! ) if you call home from far away. Take good care of your father and send him more love if you still can. I cannot any more as he passed away many years ago. There’s a Chinese saying from a famous peom: 子欲養而親不待 ( When the son wants to support the parents who have passed away. ) A pretty close translation of the sentences in that Chinese poem can be found at Dict.cn: 树欲静而风不止，子欲养而亲不待.

For pronunciation, you may click the above Chinese to get the Jyutping (Cantonese pronunciation) for those characters.
Here’s an introduction of Jyutping Lessons that you may follow. (Master Jyutping, and your are free):

After you master the Jyutping you may use the Jyutping Dictionary to learn the Cantonese pronunciation of all the Chinese characters.

Cantonese for Missionaries and Cantonese for Pastors. It means as a missionary or pastor who meet Cantonese a lot, they need to learn this basic Cantonese.

☆係唔m4係(是不是) = is or not?
☆係咁gam2 (是这样)= is like this
☆係嘅ge3(是的) = It is.
☆係喇laa1(是了) = so it is
☆係嘞laak3(对了) = that is right.
☆係噃bo3(是的哦) = Oh, it is.
☆係吖aa1(是啊) = Yes,(I agree).
☆係呀aa1(是啊) = Yes, (I agree).
☆咪就係囉mai6zau6hai6 lo1 = That’s right.(I agree to this obvious point.)
☆係啰(囉)lo1(就是嘛) = a tone-down version of 咪就係囉.
☆係啩gwaa3(可能是吧)= perhaps it is
☆係咪mai6(是不是)= 係唔m4係 is or not?
☆係咩me1(是吗)= is that so?

Please note that 咪 here is taking 6th tone instead of the 1st tone(mistake in the video): mai6

CantonesePod.com & ChineseBay.com

The Cantonese phrases and expressions we teach here are so colloquial that the Chinese characters used do not make sense at all in Mandarin. If you find them difficult, you need to practice more and try to learn them again and again from your own conversations with Cantonese speakers or find them in the Cantonese movies or TV programs. Don’t give up and keep learning and you will find more fun in learning Cantonese.

This is a Cantonese word. We don’t have it in Mandarin.
☆冇乜嘢 mou2 mat1 je5 (没什么)
= have nothing at all.It’s nothing.(it’s OK)
☆冇嘢(没什么)= nothing
☆冇你咁好氣（气）mou2 nei5 gam2 hou2 hei3(没有你那么耐心)
=have no patience like yours(don’t want to talk to you anymore)

There are lots of differences between Mandarin and Cantonese even though they share many Chinese characters and even sounds. Mandarin speakers and Cantonese speakers cannot understand each other unless they learn the other language. Mandarin and Cantonese are two different languages, but Google is continuing its big mistakes by considering Cantonese as the same or nearly the same language as Mandarin and they would not create a Cantonese selection for their Google Translate.

This article is written in hope that Google would realize their mistake someday and add Cantonese to their Google Translate. Please pass this article to someone related in Google so they can start to understand.

The differences between Mandarin & Cantonese
Althought Mandarin and Cantonese may share many Chinese characters, we can find
the following major differences between these two languages: